Hello TBUDL@thebat., Tuesday, September 15, 2015, 9:58:05 AM, you wrote:
JSL> Hello TBUDL'ers, JSL> I thought I could make the address book easier and faster to use if I created JSL> sub-groups under the default PERSONAL ADDRESS BOOK which is one of the options JSL> appearing when you click on the address book icon. Creating the sub-groups was JSL> not a problem and they all show up attached to and below the PERSONAL ADDRESS JSL> BOOK. After filling each sub-group with it's own addresses, I went to each JSL> sub-group and ticked the FAVORITE box for each address. Once this was done I JSL> could click on the down arrow next to the CREATE A NEW MESSAGE icon in the JSL> toolbar and every address book entry that had it's FAVORITE box ticked would JSL> appear, as expected. Next I right-clicked on each sub-group, selected PROPERTIES JSL> and ticked the box marked ADD ITEMS TO THE INSTANT ADDRESS POP_UP. This results JSL> in nothing but sub-groups appearing when you click on the CREATE A NEW MESSAGE JSL> icon down-arrow. You can then cursor down to whatever sub-group you want and as JSL> the cursor rested on a sub-group, a drop-down box would appear with the JSL> selections ALL ITEMS and the addresses which had their FAVORITE boxes ticked. JSL> Perfect! It worked exactly as logic told me it should work. Except as I found JSL> out later, logic doesn't always work with TB!. If you make a change to an JSL> existing address or add a new one (to any sub-group), all of the sub-groups JSL> disappear from the drop-down list next to the CREATE A NEW MESSAGE icon. Your JSL> addresses still exist in the address book however. You have to right-click each JSL> sub-group and select PROPERTIES and un-tick the ADD ITEMS TO THE INSTANT ADDRESS JSL> POP-UP box. From there you can un-tick FAVORITE on any address you don't wish to JSL> appear when you click on the down-arrow, and they will no longer display. Only JSL> those addresses whose FAVORITE boxes are still ticked will appear. JSL> I have a total of 59 addresses separated out into 6 sub-groups and HAD every JSL> FAVORITE box ticked on each address. I work around the problem by having just my JSL> most-used addresses FAVORITE boxes ticked so that only they show up when I click JSL> on the CREATE A NEW MESSAGE down-arrow. Now if I need a lesser-used address I JSL> have to open the address book. JSL> It was such a beautiful arrangement and it worked so well. JSL> Ideas? I use a more primitive system that requires me to use the address book when creating an email. I have no problem when changing items. It works this way: Have groups in the main address book and put in all the addresses into their basic/main group. Create groups for particular purposes like zGiggles, zHealth, zTravelShare. Then for each individual use the groups button in the address book to add them into their respective special-purpose groups. Then for each new email, use the address book to use any of the special-purpose groups. Apart from all this, for those individual addresses in the main groups that I want to have as Favorites, tick the Favorites box. They then appear on the right-click in the To: header. -- Paul ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using The Bat! v6.0.10 on Windows 7 6.1 Build 7601 Service Pack 1 ...Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.6 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
